How a future Manlius postmaster helped accept the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781

When British officers at Yorktown yielded their flags to the colonial army to end the Revolutionary War in 1781, it wasn’t George Washington or Alexander Hamilton who accepted the surrender.

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